Link – These words are essential for your GCSE RS Studies. They link different ideas and come up often. They may even for the words in questions on the exam so you must know what they mean!
THE TASK: Memorise
HOW do you effectively complete the task?
Look at the word and definition
Cover it up
Say the word and the definition out loud
Check if you were right
Do this for one word, then two, then three, then four etc until you can do it for all 8 words – WORD FOR WORD
Origins and Meanings Key Concepts:
| Creation ex nihilo | “creation out of nothing”. Before God created the universe, nothing existed. Only God can create out of nothing. |
| Evolution | the process of mutation and natural selection which leads to changes in species over time to suit particular environments. |
| Imago Dei | in the image of God. The belief that human beings are uniquely a reflection of God’s personhood. Unlike the other animals, human beings are rational, free and moral. |
| Inspiration | “God breathed” The belief that the Spirit of God guides an individual to act or write what is good and true. |
| Omnipotence | the belief that God is all powerful. |
| Revelation | the word used to describe all of the ways in which God makes himself known to human beings. Christians believe that God does this finally and fully in the person of Jesus Christ. |
| Stewardship | the duty to care for creation responsibly, as stewards rather than consumers, and to protect it for future generations. |
| Transcendence | existing outside of space and time; God exists in a way that makes him nothing like anything else that exists, above and beyond creation. |
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